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Re: libnss3, currently in testing

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On Thursday 08 September 2016 19:02:31 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Has anyone an idea of a schedule of when that will put this security
> > update into the wheezy repo's?
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>
> Please contact the Debian LTS people, and if this fix is not already
> in the priority queue, you could offer to sponsor the work required or
> something.
>
> > I believe this is why I cannot use the paypal account I just opened.
>
> Gene, may I humbly suggest you should get a new box for non-Linux-CNC
> work, and keep that wheezy box you use for Linux-CNC off the grid so
> that it doesn't become a liability in the future?

Liability?  Only if its destroyed on purpose by a malicious update. I 
have a router with dd-wrt reflashed into it.  No back doors.  And it 
stops _all_ the unfunny stuff. And according to the error message I get 
when I run firefox-esr from a terminal, SSL is missing.  But its not, FF 
just can't find it. IMO firefox-esr is a disaster despite the hype.

> You will be happier in the medium/long term after the investment in
> the new box pays itself off, Debian jessie should work much better
> overall for you for desktopish things (i.e. not Linux-CNC), and the
> rest of us will be happier even sooner because we will have less
> support requests related to oldstable to attend to[1] ;-)
>
> Paypal works just fine with firefox in a standard Debian 8.6 install.
>
> [1] Any work done for stable and unstable/testing _usually_ helps a
> lot more people than work done for oldstable.

I can appreciate that, but wheezy is supposed to have security support 
until sometime in 2018, but this gradual destruction of a formerly 
working system just to get folks to update smells an awful lot like 
fedora, and that rebuild your system every 30 days got old, very fast, 
so I bailed to mandrake all those years ago.  And now its happening 
again.  All I want is a system that Just Works(TM) and now it isn't.

Sometime today I'll see if I can figure out how to install the real 
mozilla firefox 48.something tarball.  Maybe even make it use the new 
flashplayer.so, now at major version 23 something. I already have them 
downloaded.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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libnss3, currently in testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-08 15:30 +0200
  Re: libnss3, currently in testing Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-09-09 00:00 +0200
    Re: libnss3, currently in testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-09 00:20 +0200
  Re: libnss3, currently in testing Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-09-09 01:10 +0200
    Re: libnss3, currently in testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-09 13:40 +0200
      Re: libnss3, currently in testing claude juif <claude.juif@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 16:40 +0200
        Re: libnss3, currently in testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-17 23:30 +0200

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